In:Literary Translator Studies
Edited by Klaus Kaindl, Waltraud Kolb and Daniela Schlager
[Benjamins Translation Library 156] 2021
► pp. 137–154
Chapter 7Institutional consecration of fifteen Swedish translators – ‘star translators’ or not?
Published online: 3 May 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.156.07lin
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.156.07lin
Article outline
- Introduction
- A general model for reconstructing consecration mechanisms
- Tokens of institutional consecration of the Swedish literary translation field
- The studied group of translators
- Personal trajectories and ‘stardomship’
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